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Hey,

First of all, sorry for changing position when taking photo's. I tried to get the best angle, to make sure that you could enjoy it more.
Second, sorry for not taking photo's every turn... I had a good game and then you can forget things.
Third, sorry for the vague pictures, they aren't good, but hey... Better then nothing.

My opponent his list,

HQ
Commander Shas’el= 88
Twin linked missile pod, airburst fragmentation projector.

ELITE
3 crisis Battlesuit 141
Twinlinked missile pod, flamer

3 Crisis Battlesuit: 189
Missile pod, Plasmarifle, multi tracker

TROOPS
6 Fire warriors: 60
Pulserifle x 6

10 Kroot: 112
7 kroot hounds

10 Kroot: 112
7 kroot hounds


FAST ATTACK

Piranha Light Skimmer: 75
Fusion Blaster, Gundrones, targeting array, disruption pod

Piranha Light Skimmer: 75
Fusion Blaster, Gundrones, targeting array, disruption pod

Piranha Light Skimmer: 75
Fusion Blaster, Gundrones, targeting array, disruption pod

HEAVY

2 Broadside Battlesuit: 160
Twinlinked railgun, broadside battlesuit, Smart Missile system, targeting array

1 Hammerhead gunship: 165
Railgun, burst cannon x 2, Multitracker, Disruption pd, Targeting array

My list,

HQ

CCS: 115
MoO, LC, Standard

Priest: 60
Eviscator

Priest: 60
Eviscator

ELITE

Marbo AKA Jack: 65

TROOPS

PCS: 65
3x melta, vox

IS: 120
Meltabombs, power weapon, meltagun, commissar with power weapon
IS: 80
meltabombs, power weapon, meltagun, vox
IS: 75
meltabombs, power weapon, meltagun

HWT: 75
AC x 3

HWT: 75
AC x 3

PCS: 65
3 x melta, vox

IS: 120
Meltabombs, power weapon, meltagun, commissar with power weapon
IS: 80
meltabombs, power weapon, meltagun, vox
IS: 75
meltabombs, power weapon, meltagun

FAST ATTACK

Rough Riders: 60
meltabombs

Rough Riders: 60
meltabombs

HEAVY
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Deployment:
The deployment was DOW. I deployed as close as possible. My opponent reserves everything. As usual we played Victory Points.

We had to scout ahead in front of the rest of the army. If we encountered any resistance we had to find out how big their numbers were before we could retreat. If we lacked any good information, we would be shot. The night was almost over and we would be relieved pretty soon.



Turn 1: Everything arrives and I move forward.

Our company commander walked in front of us with the majority of the troops. My squad followed with the Autocannon squads. The Rough Riders were on our flanks to prevent any nasty surprises.



Tau player arrives with everything except the Kroot. They kill 3 & 4 IG on the blob squads.

Suddenly, out of nowhere a lot of Tau forces appeared and opened fire on us. We had walked straight into a trap! Some troopers realized this too late and died...



Turn 2: IG move forward again and run/movemovemove forward. HQ stuns Piranha and the AC hurt a broadside.

We ordered everything forward, the Tau forces don't like a hand to hand combat. The Autocannon squads would provide covering fire.

A kroot squad arrives. The Tau kill 4 from the HQ. The blob suffers heavy casualties due flamers and large blasts. The kroot charge the other blob squad. Both sides take casualties.

Then, when we least expected it... Some freaking birds arrived! Those bleeding birds with their hounds attacked one of our squads.



Turn 3: RR moves forward, Marba arrives and kills 3 crisis suits.
A piranha is destroyed by the RR squad and the kroot get beaten in CC. The kroot fail their LD-check and flee.

Then Marba arrived, the girl that doesn't have all her marbles. She appeared and threw her democharge. The explosion killed three crisis suits! Such girls are good for the morale of our troops! Everyone fought better!

The blob squads suffer casualties and one of the PCS loses a meltagunners. Marba dies from the Shas’el

The angry Commander of the Xenos fired at Marba and she retreated wounded back to our Medic.

Turn 4: Rough Riders destroy a Hammerhead, although one dies. One of the PCS hides near the company commander. The left blob kills all the drones.

Our Rough Riders reached the large Tau tank and destroyed with with a meltabomb. Too bad that a large piece of shrapnel killed one of these heroes.



More kroot arrive and the Piranha goes flat out. The fleeing kroot run off the board. The right blob gets killed. As well as the Rough Rider squad who destroyed the Hammerhead.
More birds arrived! There were more birds coming from the other side! A Piranha flew over our heads. It didn't fire... Perhaps it's weapons were jammed...

Turn 5: Shas’el dies from a meltashot and one more piranha gets destroyed. However, one Rough Rider goes down with the Piranha. The Crisis suits and Broadsides suffer a wound from the AC fire. The last Piranha gets blown out of the sky by a lucky PCS shot. The Company Commander shoots one of the drones that come out of the burning wreck.

Anyhow... I ordered my squad to fire at the Piranha. I didn't expect them to hit it, because the skimmer was too fast. However Siger Fauquet, sat down, took aim, fired a shot and blew off the engine. I would like to recommend that guy for a medal. The skimmer hurled down towards it's death. Immediatly two drones popped out. Our brave commander shot one of those drones out of the sky. The other platoon commander killed the Tau commander.



The Company commander dies and 2 AC squads die. The PCs that killed the Shas’el dies from the kroot.



Then a lucky missile struck our company commander and he died like that. Since I was now the highest in command, I thought it was better if we retreated. We had the information we needed, at the cost of many great men. However, we made sure that the Xenos would remember us. With the Emperor's help we will crush them!

Detlev Vordon, commander of the second platoon, 197th "Iron Wolves" Batavira

The game became a draw.

Thoughts after the game:
I forgot a couple of things: The invulnerable save on my Company commander, moving on a couple of occasions, consolidation and gone to ground. I was lucky to get a draw at the end...
Besides that, I think I need to edit my list...

(Wo)man of the match: My opponent recommended Marba to be woman of the match. She has been quite annoying and did quite a good job.

Hope you enjoyed reading it!

Pretty good setup, I'm not an IG player myself so I was mainly reading it for the Tau portion. Looks like a good game.

The new tau faq which appeared before this match states the drones would have been destroyed if their vehicle is destroyed, so they couldn't have popped out.

Good game!

You're luck Marbo dispatched those XV8s and the Kroot retreated...it wouldn've been a more difficult fight other wise


Automatically Appended Next Post:

Tmonster wrote:The new tau faq which appeared before this match states the drones would have been destroyed if their vehicle is destroyed, so they couldn't have popped out.

He's right. If the drones don't disembark BEFORE the vehicle is destroyed, they also become destroyed